President of The Agency since 2020, Austin is focused on strategic growth for the Los Angeles-based company’s residential real estate brokerage arm and its global new development division. She also oversees internal creative teams supporting the firm’s more than 1,700 agents who do nearly $8 billion in annual sales. She began working in the industry in 2006 at Alan Pinel Realtors. She later moved to Compass as chief operating officer for Bay Area operations.